[wolfhound]

Originally Posted by ensign14

Promotion/relegation. Scrap GP2, replace it with a formula using whatever engine is decently available, call it, say Formula 2, and allow anyone to enter to a strict costs budget. Win that and you get a shot at F1. Finish bottom of F1 and you drop into F2.

It's a bit ridiculous that the one-make formula below means it's impossible for a team to learn how to build a car before getting to F1. The recent teams who have tried that have largely flopped. Stewart was the last to succeed. When you look at the current teams, most of them started off building lower formulae cars first, even Toro Rosso did as Minardi in the early 80s. And those that didn't (like Williams) cut their teeth running as privateers so they had a baseline they could modify.

I could not agree more.

If they developed a cost caped F2 at about 20 million or less for a 2 car team it should be good training ground for future F1 teams.